Brief info
Pedro Alonzo is an independent curator. He has served as an adjunct curator at Dallas Contemporary, ICA Boston, and the Institute of Visual Arts at the University of Wisconsin.
He is currently a Lecturer in Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he teaches a course on curating in public spaces. Alonzo specializes in exhibitions that transcend the museum walls. In 2017, he collaborated with JR on an installation in the U.S.-Mexico border and in 2022, Amnesia Atomica with Pedro Reyes in Times Square.
In the Boston area, he has worked with several organizations, including the Trustees and Boston Properties, to develop singular public art projects with artists Alicja Kwade, Claudia Comte, Ernesto Neto, Doug Aitken, Sam Durant, Shepard Fairey, Oscar Tuazon and Jean-Marie Appriou.
In 2024, Alonzo was part of the curatorial team of the Noor Riyadh Festival in Saudi Arabia. In November 2024, Pedro produced and curated the presentation of Midnight Zone, a large-scale video installation and sculptural light house lens that addresses the dangers of deep-sea mining by Julian Charrière in Los Cabos, Mexico. He is currently the artistic director for the inaugural Boston Public Art Triennial, scheduled for May 2025.